Public Broadcasting Services Ltd – the company running the state broadcaster – could stand to lose a mammoth €10 million in court if they lose an appeal over a pension scheme, The Malta Independent on Sunday can reveal.If the appeal ...

Steward Health Care has been slapped with a €5.5 million garnishee order by the Maltese courts following a lawsuit filed in a London court by one of the original investors in the hospital operator’s predecessor – Vitals Global Health...

Each time a Sunday newspaper carries out a survey on the political situation – and we’re having regular ones these days – the reaction is always the same.Everyone is happy.Because numbers always are a matter of interpretation and if...

 From a young age you have always been at the forefront of various organisations. Do you feel that these experiences will help you with your work at CRPD?Definitely, from a young age I grew up in activism. I was empowered and the girl guides had...

A video on Tik Tok of a man working on the side of a building without a proper harness has raised some safety concerns.The man climbs over the side of a building, without any harness around him, and stands on a plank of wood held by two ropes.Such wo...

Be it at a recreational or elite level, athletes have all been greatly affected by the pandemic in some way or another. The virus has made an impact and disrupted structured training within various sporting disciplines. Well-known sports doctor Kiril...

Malta’s Covid-19 reproduction number is now below 1 after the number of cases found in the past week decreased significantly, statistician Vincent Marmara told The Malta Independent on Sunday in his exclusive weekly video blog on the Covid-19 s...

Dar Merhba Bik was proactive in its efforts to help women face domestic difficulties which were compounded by the Covid-19 pandemic.The home is where many women seek shelter from abuse in their home. The Covid-19 pandemic made matters more difficult ...

Former PN leader Adrian Delia defended what he described as a “sincere gesture”, saying he will not stop trying to help people in need.On Saturday, Dar tal-Provvidenza issued a statement saying it was rejecting a €500,000 donation wh...

The message was tucked into a bouquet of chrysanthemums left by a mourner at the back of Wuhan Central Hospital to honor a Chinese whistleblower doctor who died from the coronavirus a year ago. It was simply the number of a Bible verse: Matthew 5:10....

Marcon Saywell (Bezzina) was born on 11 September 1985. She is married to Judoka Jeremy Saywell, who is still competing and they are the proud parents of two-year-old Craig.Marcon started this interview by talking about her childhood days which she d...

Italian Premier-designate Mario Draghi on Saturday secured preliminary support from two key parties for forming a new government that will decide how to spend more than 200 billion euros ($240 billion) in European Union funds to help relaunch Italy's...

The €500,000 donation fronted by former PN leader Adrian Delia to the Dar tal-Providenza has been rejected, the home said in a statement on Saturday.Following the pledge of €500,000 from CATCO Group, Id-Dar tal-Providenza signed a letter of...

134 new cases of Covid-19 were reported on Saturday along with two more deaths related to the virus.The number of new cases bucks the trend of the past two days, where 79 and 57 cases respectively were found.Authorities said in their daily update tha...

The President of Malta George Vella today announced that a conference on Malta’s national unity will be organised on 27 February at the Verdala Palace.The conference follows Vella’s word of honour taken in his April 2019 speech upon his a...

Jesmark Scicluna never thought he’d win an award when he signed up to act in the film Luzzu. It was his first ever film.Jesmark is a Siggiewi-based fisherman who was cast as the lead in the Maltese film, Luzzu. He won the World Cinema Dramatic ...

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A more contagious variant of the coronavirus first detected in Britain now accounts for almost 6% of all cases in Germany, officials said Friday.The head of Germany's disease control agency said labs examined the genome of the virus in more than 30,0...

Labour MEP Alfred Sant has abstained on a European Parliament report on the implementation of the Common Security and Defence Policy as it may imply support for further militarisation of Europe. “I did so out of prudence. The text ignores the n...

At the initiative of the Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Sustainable Development Miriam Dalli and the Energy and Water Agency (EWA), discussions are underway with local councils to facilitate access to the water conservation kits.“Together ...

Tarxien gained some momentum when in the first match played on Saturday afternoon at the National Stadium they beat Sirens by a 3-1 margin. It was a well deserved win for the Rainbows who can now start believing that they can make it to avoid the dro...

By scoring 12 goals in two matches over four days, Manchester United’s players are showing they have the firepower to challenge Manchester City for the English Premier League title.The problem is, they don’t have the defense to go with it...

Cristiano Ronaldo marked his birthday by setting up Juventus to beat Roma 2-0 in Serie A on Saturday.Ronaldo turned 36 on Friday then showed little sign of slowing down as he scored and also hit the crossbar in the first half. An own goal by Roma def...

The past week saw yet another saga relating to money (or lack thereof) and Maltese football.This time it was Sliema Wanderers, one of Malta’s most storied clubs, which was in the news. It is unusual for Sliema to be associated with such a negat...

Everyone arriving in the U.K. from countries identified as coronavirus hotspots will have to spend 10 days in hotel quarantine starting Feb. 15 in a bid to stop new virus variants reaching the country, the government said Friday.But authorities are f...

Malta has remained a ‘flawed democracy’, according to the 2020 Democracy Index drawn up by The Economist, having an even lower score than last year.The yearly index is drawn up by The Economist Intelligence Unit, which is the research and...

PN MP Kevin Cutajar has said that he will not be discouraged by those who choose to make fun of him due to his disability after a Facebook post doing just that spread on social media.In a statement on his Facebook page, Cutajar thanked every for thei...

Leon Spinks, who won Olympic gold and then shocked the boxing world by beating Muhammad Ali to win the heavyweight title in only his eighth pro fight, has died. He was 67.Spinks, who lived his later years in Las Vegas, died Friday night, according to...

Former President Donald Trump's historic second impeachment trial begins Tuesday, forcing the Senate to decide whether to convict him of incitement of insurrection after a violent mob of his supporters laid siege to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.While T...

Christopher Plummer, the dashing award-winning actor who played Captain von Trapp in the film “The Sound of Music” and at 82 became the oldest Academy Award acting winner in history, has died. He was 91.Plummer died Friday morning at his ...

Melvin Theuma feared that Yorgen Fenech wouldl try to eliminate him after Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered, a court heard.Testifying in the compilation of evidence against three men accused of executing the murder, Theuma said he threw away food a...

Static artistic installations in various streets around Malta and squares in Valletta will replace the traditional float parade for this year’s Carnival period.In a press conference detailing how this year’s Carnival edition – which...

57 new cases of Covid-19 were reported on Friday with four new deaths related to the virus also reported, health authorities said.Today’s case numbers come after 79 were reported on Thursday: the lowest tally since 50 cases were found on Christ...

A 29-year-old man was arrested in connection with an attempted murder in Gzira early this morning, police said.In a statement, the police said that they had found substances suspected to be drugs in the man’s residence.Police said that at aroun...

The MUMN has said that it is "really surprised and at the same time disappointed" over how Deputy Prime Minister Chris Fearne "misguided the public and conveyed false information" over the news that 50 Covid-19 vaccine doses were lost.Fearne had told...

The head of the U.N. mission in Libya said Thursday that a top military commander who runs eastern regions has given his backing to efforts to unite the divided country around an interim government before elections can be held late this year.Stephani...

Inter Milan moved to the top of Serie A after winning at Fiorentina 2-0 on Friday.Nicolò Barella scored a great first-half opener and Ivan Perišić doubled the lead shortly after the break to hand the Nerazzurri their first win in F...

Birkirkara kept the pressure on the front runners when they beat Żejtun in the first match played at the Centenary Stadium on Friday evening. It was a deserved win for the Stripes who have now jumped to fourth place.  Zejtun went into this ...

When it comes to fighting the coronavirus, Israel is discovering the limits of vaccines.The country famous for its high-tech prowess and spirit of innovation is home to the world's speediest vaccination drive, fueled from the top by national pride an...

Teachers – or, perhaps, the unions representing them – have missed a golden chance to dispel the idea, which other professions, offices and workplaces share, that they put holidays too high on their list of priorities.A few days ago, it w...

Infrastructure Malta invested over €7 million to rebuild ten roads in Zejtun, including some of the main access routes to this locality, during the last two years.This month, the agency is completing the reconstruction of Il-Hamsa u Ghoxrin ta&r...

A Dutch inmate who allegedly recorded his conversations with Melvin Theuma has been summoned to Malta both as a witness in the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder case and as a suspect in money laundering and computer crime investigations, The Malta Indepe...

People who are considered to be vulnerable will begin receiving appointments to get vaccinated against Covid-19 as from next week, Health Minister Chris Fearne announced on Thursday.This is two weeks earlier than was scheduled, with the impending arr...

Yorgen Fenech’s lawyers Gianluca Caruana Curran and Charles Mercieca will face charges in court over their alleged attempt to bribe a journalist, the Times of Malta said on Thursday.Caruana Curran and Mercieca got themselves into hot water when...

79 new cases of Covid-19 were reported on Thursday, the lowest tally since 50 cases were found on Christmas Day.It’s the first time that the number of cases has dipped below 100 since 3 January.No new deaths were registered during the last 24 h...

Former OPM chief of staff Keith Schembri had his police bail lifted, after he was called in again by the financial crimes police, his lawyer said.Schembri arrived at the headquarters of the Financial Crimes Investigation Department in Hamrun at aroun...

An Iranian official on Thursday was convicted of masterminding a thwarted bomb attack against an exiled Iranian opposition group in France in 2018 and sentenced to 20 years in prison by a Belgian court that rejected his claim of diplomatic immunity.P...

The thrilling day’s here tomorrow at 9 PM - are you ready for EuroMillions’ very first €130 Million Superdraw of the year? Place your bets while you still can and you might just possibly win the entire jackpot. EuroMillions is h...

Labour MEP Alfred Sant is “unconvinced” that the “significant increase in the number of MPs” will be useful.In his blog on The Malta Independent today, Sant refers to the bill meant to ensure that Malta will have a minimum num...

A Chelsea victory that extended the team's revival under Thomas Tuchel left Tottenham experiencing new lows under Jose Mourinho.Not since 2012 has Tottenham endured three consecutive Premier League losses. Never before in his managerial career has Mo...

Labour MEP Alex Agius Saliba, together with his S&D colleagues, have launched EU Medicinal cannabis cross-party alliance.The objectives of this alliance will be to introduce the harmonisation of the standards of medicinal cannabis across the EU M...

Employers must understand that just because they provide the option and the tools for their employees to work remotely, they have not bought one’s entire life, UĦM – Voice of the Workers CEO Josef Vella said in an interview with ...

Deputy Prime Minister Chris Fearne and Minister Carmelo Abela visited the Sir Anthony Mamo Oncology Centre on the occasion of World Cancer day, where they laid out plans for the recovery from the pandemic, as well as combating cancer. Due to the pand...

A public consultation on the Condominium Act of 1997 has been launched, Minister for Justice, Equality and Governance Edward Zammit Lewis announced on Thursday.The Minister was joined by Parliamentary Secretary for Citizenship and Communities Alex Mu...

NGO Moviment Graffitti has condemned the proposal for the construction of 71 apartments over four storeys, 74 garages on two basement levels, and a communal pool over farmland in Nadur, Gozo. The development in Triq il-Qortin, is part of the 200...

A man was seriously injured this afternoon in a quadbike accident in Gozo, the police said.The accident took place at 1pm in Victoria Road, Nadur.The man, aged 36 of Zabbar, was riding a quadbike which crashed into a parked Isuzu van.He was taken to ...

A Nepalese man was grievously injured in an accident at a construction site on Thursday morning, police said.Police said that at around 10:20 this morning it was informed of a need for assistance at a construction site in the limits of Hal-Farrug.Dis...

British scientists are starting a study Thursday to find out if it's OK to mix and match COVID-19 vaccines.The vaccines being rolled out now require two doses, and people are supposed to get two shots of the same kind, weeks apart.Guidelines in Brita...

Business 1st was one of the frontline offices within Malta Enterprise during the past months, working tirelessly, at some points even 7 days a week, in order to help businesses to survive this crisis, The Malta Business Weekly was told.Mari...

AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine shows a hint that it may reduce transmission of the virus and offers strong protection for three months on just a single dose, researchers said Wednesday in an encouraging turn in the campaign to suppress the outb...

Two have been hospitalised after a serious accident involving multiple vehicles in St Paul’s Bay on Wednesday evening, the police said.The accident took place at around 7.30 pm in Triq il-Mosta, near the fuel station. Four vehicles were involve...

Organic farming is still a priority, despite the challenges related to increasing the area designated for organic farming in the Maltese islands, a spokesperson for the Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries, Food and Animal Rights told The Malta Indepe...

A German veterinary clinic has trained sniffer dogs to detect Covid-19 in human saliva samples, something that the canines manage to do with 94% accuracy.The dogs are conditioned to pick up the "corona odour" that comes from cells in infected people,...

The Super 5 Jackpot of €300,000 has been won by four winners, Maltco announced. The tickets were purchased from Tarxien, St. Andrews, Rabat (Malta) and Naxxar.Numbers Drawn:    1 • 43 • 45 • 44 • 2WINNING ...

Malta launched a new citizenship-by-investment scheme a few months ago which, it says, is an improvement of the highly controversial IIP. But its future is all but certain as the European Commission is still mulling taking Malta to court. The EC laun...

Former government minister Konrad Mizzi was interrogated by the police’s financial crime investigation unit on WednesdayMizzi was seen entering the Financial Crime Investigation Unit’s headquarters in Santa Venera, although it remains unc...

138 new cases of Covid-19 were reported on Wednesday, while three more patients have died while positive for the virus.In their daily update, health authorities said that during the last 24 hours, a 68-year-old man and an 84-year-old man had passed a...

The government would need to pay over €417 million for terminating the Electrogas power station deal, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) heard.Auditor General Charles Deguara was answering questions before the PAC. It was said that due to liabi...

Superintendent of Public Health Prof Charmaine Gauci has revealed that 12 new cases of the UK Covid-19 variant have been found in Malta. Gauci was speaking during a live Q&A session on the Times of Malta. This takes the total number of ...

The UĦM - Voice of the Workers has ordered industrial action at Karin Grech, St Luke’s and Gozo General Hospital – the hospitals operated by Steward Health Care – after they said that the government had failed to keep its word....

Murder middleman Melvin Theuma testified in the compilation of evidence against three men charged with executing the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017 continues.This is Theuma's first appearance on the witness stand since being cleared ...

Three men were charged on Monday over the discovery of 21 kilos of cannabis found hidden in a fridge and a freezer in Floriana. A fourth man is still being investigated.The police said on Tuesday that the drugs, which have an estimated street value o...

Opposition and PN leader Bernard Grech said that the Public Broadcasting Services (PBS) was not perfect before 2013 –when the PN was in Government – but it was in a much better state than it is today.The Malta Independent spoke to Grech a...

Valletta showed signs of recovery yesterday against Sliema but for the third consecutive match they still failed to find the back of the net. It was a fair result in a balanced encounter, a result that is of little use to both teams.Valletta were ver...

After going 68 Premier League games unbeaten at Anfield, Liverpool has slumped to back-to-back losses at the stadium that was its impenetrable stronghold for nearly four years.The latest defeat — to lowly Brighton — left the champions' ti...

Napoli held high-scoring Atalanta in check during a 0-0 draw Wednesday but may regret not scoring at home during the first leg of the Italian Cup semifinals.Atalanta had the better chances in a physical match at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona.Napo...

PBS had spent €10,000 on lunches over two years, it emerged during John Bundy's testimony before the Industrial Tribunal.Bundy on Tuesday won an unfair dismissal claim against the public broadcaster, with the tribunal ordering PBS to pay him &eu...

Malta Enterprise (ME) approved almost €350 million in payments under the Wage Supplement Scheme, which was introduced to help businesses cope during the Covid-19 pandemic.This information was tabled in parliament by Enterprise Minister Miriam Da...

Jesmark Scicluna, a Siggiewi-based fisherman, who was cast as the lead of the Maltese film, Luzzu, has won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award in Acting at the Sundance Film Festival. Luzzu was directed by Alex Camilleri and made its world p...

26 years ago today, nine dockyard workers were tragically killed in an explosion on board a Libyan tanker which they were working on in the drydocks.The Um El Faroud, a tanker built in the UK in 1969 but, by 1995, owned by the General National Transp...

The European Commission is still analysing the replies sent by the Maltese government after the EC launched infringement proceedings on Malta and Cyrpus’ ‘golden visa’ schemes. Last year, Malta phased out the controversial Individua...

Gozo Channel did not breach its public service obligations when it stopped the Mgarr-Marsamxett cargo route, Transport Minister Ian Borg told Parliament on Wednesday.He was replying to a parliamentary question by PN MP Joe Ellis, who asked how the mi...

God's Soldiers was the first major production to shoot and complete in Malta after the first wave of Covid-19, according to the website Prolific North.The production was released in Austria in late 2020 according to IMDB.The drama documentary “...

The government will this year launch a number of new projects and services for persons with a disability, including laws that were forgotten for a number of years, Inclusion Minister Julia Farrugia Portelli said on Wednesday.Farrugia Portelli and Pri...

Britain’s health chief said Wednesday that a new study suggesting that a single dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine provides a high level of protection for 12 weeks supports the government’s strategy of delaying the second sho...

England has begun house-by-house COVID-19 testing in some communities as authorities try to snuff out a new variant of the coronavirus before it spreads widely and undermines a nationwide vaccination program.Authorities want to reach the 80,000 resid...

Bank of Valletta has said that it will continue with its defence in relation to the Deiulemar case, stating that the ECHR's rejection of its case is on the basis of the fact that they had not exhausted all avenues in Italy yet.In 2019, Bank of Vallet...

Pete Buttigieg won Senate approval Tuesday as transportation secretary, the first openly gay person to be confirmed to a Cabinet post. He’ll be tasked with advancing President Joe Biden’s ambitious agenda of rebuilding the nation’s ...

A particular bit of news published this week is a major cause of concern.In 2020, Malta registered the highest number of prisoners it has ever experienced in its recorded history, with over 900 inmates being held at the Corradino Correctional Facilit...

A 50-year-old man from Marsa was grievously injured in Hamrun on Wednesday, after he lost control of his motorcycle and crashed.Thi accident took plact on Triq il-Kbira San Guzepp at 6.15am.The man, who was riding a Junak 806, was taken to Mater Dei ...

World Health Organization investigators on Wednesday visited a research center in the Chinese city of Wuhan that has been the subject of speculation about the origins of the coronavirus, with one member saying they'd intended to meet key staff and pr...

Former European bank chief Mario Draghi was positioned to lead what could quickly become Italy's next government after the Italian president concluded Tuesday that squabbling political parties failed in a last-ditch effort to form a new coalition and...

John Bundy has won an unfair dismissal case he had filed before the industrial tribunal after he was sacked as CEO of the Public Broadcasting Services in 2017. The veteran presenter announced the verdict in a Facebook post. PBS will have to...

An eyewitness who saw Daphne Caruana Galizia’s car explode has told the court of the horrific scene he saw on the day of the murder.Francis Sant, a Bidnija resident, was driving up the hill towards the hamlet at around 3pm on 16 October 2017 wh...

Patients who need to travel abroad for medical care will, from tomorrow, start having the Covid-19 vaccine administered to them before they leave, Deputy Prime Minister Chris Fearne has said.This process will be organised by Mater Dei Hospital and th...

Over 5,700 people have signed a petition calling on the government to take action and start restoring one of Malta’s 18th century heritage buildings, Selmun Palace, which has been left in a terrible state over the past years. The petition ...

Captain Sir Tom Moore, who raised over £32 million for the National Health Service (NHS) has passed away at the age of 100. Moore was taken to Bedford Hospital on Sunday after struggling with his breathing.  His daughter Hannah Ingram...

A package which caused alarm due to its resemblance to a possible car bomb turned out to be a false alarm in Pieta on Tuesday afternoon.Police told this newsroom that alarm was raised in a parking lot in Triq ix-Xatt, Pieta, when a bomb was thought t...

Fifteen months later, it happened again to Southampton.Ralph Hasenhuttl’s team has another 9-0 loss to get over after Manchester United cleaned up at Old Trafford to tie the biggest margin of victory since the Premier League began in 1992.There...

Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice to help Juventus fight back to win 2-1 at Inter Milan in the first leg of their Italian Cup semifinal on Tuesday.Ronaldo netted a penalty and took advantage of a horrendous defensive error to give his side the advantage...